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in LeoFinance • 3 months ago

OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others

A lawsuit by the world’s wealthiest man against one of the fastest growing companies of all time is necessarily interesting stuff. But while the allegations are yet to be proven, the case has already exposed a batch of emails between Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others during OpenAI’s early days. Here are a few of the more interesting snippets we found while perusing their correspondence.

#openai #samaltman #elonmusk #lawsuit #technology

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    Bear in mind that these emails were exposed as part of an attempt to prove OpenAI is somehow breaking antitrust law (a frankly implausible allegation). Musk is also revealing to some extent his feeling of betrayal when OpenAI abandoned its original vision of being a nonprofit with the Tesla CEO as its leader.

    They do not tell the whole story, but they are still interesting in their own right.

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      The current structure provides you with a path where you end up with unilateral absolute control over the AGI [artificial general intelligence]. You stated that you don’t want to control the final AGI, but during this negotiation, you’ve shown to us that absolute control is extremely important to you.

      As an example, you said that you needed to be CEO of the new company so that everyone will know that you are the one who is in charge, even though you also stated that you hate being CEO and would much rather not be CEO.

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        This is as you say it interesting stuff. I didn't know the agreement was this deep. No wonder Elon is taking this personal. Sam really went against his promises. Maybe a Promise of safety will be xAI advantage of OpenAI to the investors

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          Thus, we are concerned that as the company makes genuine progress towards AGI, you will choose to retain your absolute control of the company despite current intent to the contrary.

          The goal of OpenAI is to make the future good and to avoid an AGI dictatorship. You are concerned that Demis [Hassabis, at Google-owned DeepMind] could create an AGI dictatorship. So do we. So it is a bad idea to create a structure where you could become a dictator if you chose to, especially given that we can create some other structure that avoids this possibility.

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            Sutskever also voices worries about Altman, using words much like the board would later use while accusing him of not being “consistently candid”:

            We haven’t been able to fully trust your judgements throughout this process, because we don’t understand your cost function.

            We don’t understand why the CEO title is so important to you. Your stated reasons have changed, and it’s hard to really understand what’s driving it.

            Is AGI truly your primary motivation? How does it connect to your political goals?

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